tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37004938007972061452024-03-06T08:40:48.034+02:00drakensviewPhilliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.comBlogger682125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-83768146899623452202016-10-22T10:18:00.000+02:002016-10-22T10:20:30.082+02:00Fibonaci Spiral<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mathematics has been around since before man learned how to use his fingers to count to 10, (I was always under the impression that it had been invented by sadistic teachers to torture math's illiterates like myself) the whole of the universe is one great mathematical equation, and the Fibonaccci spiral is part of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the left of the picture is a diagram of how it looks and a close up photo of a flower where you can see the spirals clearly, 34 to the right and 21 to the left.</span></div>
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Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-1817391780060282422016-10-08T11:17:00.000+02:002016-10-08T11:17:37.332+02:00Up close and persona.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-30798161369484002772016-07-07T14:14:00.000+02:002016-07-07T14:14:40.284+02:00End of an era.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All good things come to an end eventually. After nine years of teaching Drakensview Primary School, the governing body decided that all teacher 65 years and over had to go, well I was nearing the end of my 68th year so I was one of three that had to go. The first two years that I was there I taught English and History to grade 7, at the beginning of 2009 I took over the library. I have had no formal teacher training, lots experience though (been teaching since 1996) but I do have two library degrees a B.Bibl degree in Library and Information Science, a four year degree, and I have a post graduate Honours Bachelor of Library Science (B.Bibl Hons) from the University of South Africa, (UNISA) a distance learning institute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I enjoyed every day that I worked at Drakensview, I can't remember one day where I thought I'm not in the mood to face another day at school, work was a pleasure! Actually I can't remember one job in my working life that I didn't enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Come end of year and at the last assembly of the year for the Foundation Phase, gd's 1 - 3, I was invited to attend and given a certificate and a gift bag full of goodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Above is the certificate I was given, if you enlarge the image and look in the bottom left hand corner you will see Worm Fixations and right at the bottom left Glow-worm. This refers to a comment I made in November. On the 3rd of December I had to go to hospital for what the medical profession calls a "procedure", in real English an operation. The "procedure" was Brachy-therapy, which is where they implant radio active pellets into the prostate glad to combat prostate cancer, (seems to have worked). Well before I went in for the "procedure", I told everyone in the staff room during tea time one day that when I'm radio active I will have a Light Sabre like Luke Sky-Walker in Star Wars, and at night when I go to toilet I won't have to switch on any lights, all I need to do is take out my Light Sabre and light my way. Someone muttered under their breath, "he means his glow-worm". Who needs enemies when you've got friend like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Above is the gift bag specially made for me, the fish and the lettering were cut out and carefully pasted on to the bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At our year end function at one of the posh Berg hotels I was presented with this clock. Here again all the letters and numbers were carefully cut out and glued onto the clock face. This was done by one of the school secretaries, Lindy Naude, in her spare time at home. To say that I was deeply touched by these tokens of affection would be putting it mildly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will write about my new career in a following post, just to say I'm now a member of the SAVF. What is the SAVF? The SAVF is an NPO (non profit charity organisation) that has almost 400 institutions under it's wing, old age homes, frail care centers, orphanages, creches, etc,. And what do the letters SAVF stand for? Suid Afrikaanse Vroue Federasie, translation South African Women's Federation, founded in 1903. Google SAVF South Africa for the whole history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How come a man is member of a women's organisation, as I said more about that later just to say I'm still involved in education.</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-28282651497031167562016-06-05T12:56:00.000+02:002016-06-05T12:56:36.803+02:00Photography.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you look at a photo sometimes what you see is not always what really was, with photo editing programs you can do wonderful things.</span><br />
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The photo above was taken two weeks ago. The rest were taken day before yesterday.<br />
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All these photos were taken in the middle of the day in bright sunlight. Not the best time of day to take photos according to the experts.<br />
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The secret is to under expose, my exposure was set for the light coming of the flower itself, not the background, which is much darker . I used a Canon 85mm zoom lens with the camera on a tripod and zoomed in up close.<br />
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One can't believe that a common fly can have beauty, but enlarge this photo and look at the fly in the middle of this flower.<br />
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For most of the photos I was down low, actually sitting on the ground.Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-63640687743006822712015-12-24T15:43:00.000+02:002015-12-24T15:43:59.695+02:00Bella, a happy pup.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bella is a small Scottish terrier, not a pup any more, but a dog of at least a year old, she belongs to my land lord's grand daughters. Bella knows that every afternoon, +- 4 pm, I take my three dogs and Bear, my landlords Alsatian, and go for a long walk around the farm, 4 - 5 km every afternoon. At about 3:30 Bella turns up at my cottage and watches every move I make so that when I walk out the back gate she's there with me and the other dogs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Small, I doubt she ways a kilogram wet, but plucky. She should be sitting on a velvet cushion with a pink bow in her hair,(the normal picture of Scotties) not her, the African veld is her heaven, loves to hunt and chase things, no matter how big. Her cuteness is all put on, in her heart she is a killer dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My photo, Mother Teresa's words.</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-48680681029891557182015-04-25T20:05:00.000+02:002015-04-25T20:05:05.859+02:00Doreen.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doreen that's the name of the scale model steam engine pictured below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While my friend Jane and I were staying at Lemon wood, we went to a place called "Pigley Wigley", I kid you not that's it's name. One of the tourist spots on the Natal Midlands Meander. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was a time when the smallest "Dorp" (village) was connected to the national railroad system. The South African Railways was a state owned railway with thousands of kilometers of railroad track covering the whole country. Until the 1970's most of it was used by steam trains except the mainlines between major cities which was electrified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I still remember the excitement of my brother and I (we lived in Durban, early 1950's) when our parents took my brother and I to visit my mothers grandfather who had a farm near the small town of Donnybrook in the East Grigualand land area of southern Natal. We loved to ride on the "Donnybrook train". Today the trip by car would take you 3 or 4 hours, back then it was an overnight journey, nothing beats sleeping on a train. These trips were made two or three time a year and could hardly wait for the next one.</span><br />
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All sorts of artist and crafts people have settled here, you can buy hand made furniture, pottery, leather work, paintings, etc., etc.You can have you're pick of the kind of accommodation or holiday you would like to have, from five star hotels and spas to very basic camping facilities. My favourite place is the second hand bookshop at "Piggly Wiggely", promise you that's the place's name and more about that in the next post.<br />
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It covers a huge area and as you travel on the winding roads through lush farm lands you see signs directing you to Wedding and Conference resorts, I counted about six, (it's the in thing to have your wedding at one of these places), Golf resorts, health spas, beauty spas, you name it they've got it.<br />
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My friend and I choose one of the smaller and cheaper places called Lemonwood at R325 per person per night, (less than $30 US dollars).Two bedrooms two bathrooms, loung/dining room and fully fitted kitchen. You do you're own cooking, (if you don't feel like cooking there are restaurants that cater for every taste, and pocket, in every direction). The cottages come with bedding, towels, crockery, cutlery, etc. You don't have to clean up or make your bed as the cottages are serviced every day, just bring your own food and drink.<br />
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A view from Lemonwood, looking over lush, intensely cultivated farm land.<br />
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One of the smaller cottages.<br />
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The cottage we stayed in, large swimming pool right in front.<br />
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Indigenous forest behind the cottages. Lemonwood is part of the Dargle conservancy. A conservancy is where the land owners get together and protect the fauna and flora of an area, like in the Dargle distrct.<br />
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Google Natal Midlands Meander, a great place to spend some time.Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-12569728940198934652015-04-04T11:59:00.000+02:002015-04-04T11:59:15.729+02:00A different angle.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A cosmos flower taken from the side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did not know how it would come out when took this photo.</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-34762663532677053602015-04-03T21:51:00.002+02:002015-04-03T21:51:46.433+02:00Cosmos<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Went out at sunrise yesterday and took these photos. Getting to know my new camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A weed, one of the few good things to come out of our 2nd War of Independence, (Boer War 1899 - 1902). Came with British imported horse feed from Argentina. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Took the British Empire, at the high't of it's Imperial power, three years to defeat a handful of peasant farmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's not 100%, (slight blue tinge left back, (but I think I got the idea). The roses were slightly wilted but I liked the motto. </span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-80371899844737885632014-12-23T13:18:00.000+02:002014-12-23T13:24:53.551+02:00Festive season??<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This time of the year is called the "festive season" here in the good old R of SA. Well for many it becomes a season of tragedy and immense sadness due to the carnage on our roads at this time of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last Saturday the Italian Leprechaun and I went to fetch a friend from hospital in Pietermaritzburg. As we got on to the N3 highway heading south I knew this drive was going to be no picnic. The traffic was bumper to bumper on both the south bound lanes and and almost as bad on the north bound. There is no room for evasive action if someone should do something stupid in front of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the small town of Mooi River (Pretty River) +- 30km south of this point in the photo below is the "Mooi toll plaza". Traffic south bound going through the toll was +- 6,000 an hour, not counting the heavy trucks which average 5,000 a day on this road. Heading north the count was +- 3000 an hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Looking south, from here the N3 stretches 200 km to the port city of Durban on the Indian ocean. At Durban the N3 crosses the N2 highway heading north and south just inland of the coast and all the seaside holiday resorts, the destination of all the inland holiday makers. People pay thousands of rands for a few days stay at these resorts, some never get there or if they get there some never get home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I took this photo on Sunday morning and the traffic has reduced to a trickle. The day before was a totally different story, the south bound on ramp where we joined the flow is just around the corner on the left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Looking north, the N3 stretches for more than 400 km to the city of Johannesburg, after that still further north to our capital city Pretoria, and the further north still for hundreds of kilometers further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No one drives a small car any more, the bigger the better and it had better be a 4 X 4 SUV or you are a nobody. The speed limit on our main roads is 120 km and hour, about 70 mph, but few obey this rule. Most of the highway is under average speed camera coverage. The authorities collect millions, (maybe billions) of rands in traffic fine, never seems to change any-ones speeding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In spite of cars being bumper to bumper on both lanes there are the weavers who look for the slightest gap and weave from left to right into these gaps as they pass others at excessive speeds. Even when you have no where for you to go, you will get some fool behind you flashing his head lights at you to get out of the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After collecting our friend at the hospital we took the N3 heading north. We were about 20 km north of Pietermaritzburg when the first ambulance passed us red light flashing and sirens howling then a police car, another ambulance. I lost count of the emergency vehicles that had passed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">About 30 km further we came to the scene of the accident on the south bound lanes, shattered vehicles scattered in all directions, bodies lying everywhere. One large SUV was lying on it's side with it's roof ripped off and the bodies of two children still strapped in the back seat. One amazing thing though is the fast reaction time by the emergency service in situations like this, (lots of practice I suppose). At this time of the year all emergency services are on high alert 24/7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How did this happen? Well people are stupid, selfish and think they own the road. Hundreds die on our roads during the so called "festive season." During the June/July school holidays the results are the same. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the moment the road authorities are adding a third lane, especially on steeper parts of the road, eventually the whole of the N3 highway will be a 6 lane highway, doubt it will make much difference though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">South Africa has one of the most stringent learner drive laws in the world. You have to been trained by a register'd and licensed driving school, then you get tested and get your learner drivers licence, more training by the driving school then tested for your drivers licence, fail one part of the test and you start from the beginning again. But once behind the wheel of their own car all this seems to be forgotten at once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My father taught me to drive and told me that the most dangerous part of the car is the "nut" holding the steering wheel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will be travelling north about 600 km on this highway myself on the 2nd January, not looking forward to the trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-62661988724479760622014-10-19T19:46:00.000+02:002014-10-19T19:46:02.596+02:00Magic moment.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Saturday the Italian leprechaun and I did our monthly trip to the big city, or the mall to be exact. We got there just after 8 am, the huge parking lot was still empty, inside all the shops were still closed, but the "Mug $ Bean" coffee shop was open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We took a table right at the opposite side of the coffee shop where the class partitions were rolled back. Just outside, about 10 meters from our table, was the kiddies play area, with all sorts of ride on, or ride in machines, that rock and sway, and have lights that flash once the necessary token has been inserted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While we were eating I looked down to my right and there right next to the table looking at all these kids delights stood a little black toddler, not two years old. I looked around and saw his parents sitting a few tables away watching him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The little one stood there quite still while we ate, babbling away in his baby Zulu at us and we babbled back. We finished our breakfast, paid our bill and stood up to leave. As I was about to walk off I felt a small warm hand take mine, he was coming with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Leprechaun saw my dilemma and held out his arms to the little one, who reached up and happily allowed himself to be picked up, he then carried him back to his parents. Well the little guy was not happy about that, he thought we were going to take him to all those magical rides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wish I'd thought to take a photo of him, cute as a button. </span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-40577305115636400822014-10-19T19:05:00.000+02:002014-10-19T19:05:25.882+02:00Wheat.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ears of ripening wheat in the last rays of the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But my post is about the flower photos I took yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My camera's lens was touching the bottom petals of this flower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my aphorisms is "nature is hairy", and most of my photo's show it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This skink is walking across a vertical wall as easily as you would walk across your living room floor. Note the iridescent colours reflected from it's scales. When attacked by other animals skinks are able to shed their tail, which thrashes about distracting the attacker allowing the skink to escape. It doesn't take too long and the skink grows a new tail. </span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-27468572629425829742014-10-06T10:07:00.003+02:002014-10-06T10:07:43.164+02:00Flowers of the African veld.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most of the flowers shown are so small as to be hardly noticeable, but when knows where to look treasures are revealed. One can spend hours photographing them, you find one then you see another and another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Almost every flower has it's insect life and if the flowers are small the insects are minute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All these photos were taken down on my knees with the camera lens millimeters from the flowers with the camera set on macro mode. Late afternoon or early morning is the best time for this kind of photography.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Lacy yellow. This flower has an insect visitor a tiny beetle, look bottom left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This delicate flower is tiny, yet on the bottom left there is an insect that is tinier still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">www.sanparks.org/parks/addo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be sure to watch the video.</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-16430581540609734302014-10-04T08:54:00.001+02:002014-10-04T08:54:19.178+02:00Addo elephant rescue.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Addo National Elephant Park is situated in the Eastern Cape province near the city of Port Elizabeth. Here in South Africa when we talk of Port Elizabeth we just say PE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I got this story and the photos by email from a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the photos below you will see adult elephants trying to rescue a baby elephant which had fallen into a water hole and could not get out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can see the baby just under the head of the young elephant in the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Addo park rangers brought a backhoe to try and make a slope in the vertical banks of the water hole so that the baby could climb out. The adult elephants became very agitated at the sight of this big machine and would not let them near the baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rangers managed to drive off the adults so that they could help the baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two rangers jumped off their pickup truck and ran to help the baby. Mother elephants are very protective of their babies, so what they were doing was extremely dangerous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rangers ran off to get back on the pickup and out of moms way, but baby had other ideas and ran after them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mom could not see her baby because of trees and bush in the way so the ranger put baby on the truck and drove to an opening where she could see her baby and put it on the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Relieved mom and her baby together at last. The little elephant had been trapped in the waterhole for 3 hours. This rescue took place on the 27th of August 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never approach a wild elephant, never ever get between elephants and their young! If you should see any wild animal in trouble contact the park rangers as this photographer did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As they say in the classics, "don't try this at home".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The history of Addo Elephant Park and it's elephants is a very interesting one, I will do a post on it soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you start photographing really tiny flowers, you have to get real close, down on your hands and knees, (getting down is the easy part) these close-up photos reveal things you would not usually see. You see intricate design! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Look carefully at the florets in this flower and see the spirals, these spirals are known Fibonacci spiral, and you find them everywhere in nature. If you enlarge this photo you will see the minute insects that call it home. Why were these tiny flowers, which most people would never see, made so perfect and beautiful? And with most of them it's literally here today gone tomorrow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This illustration that I downloaded from the internet, shows clearly how these spirals look. The numbers 21 and 34 are known as Fibonacci numbers. A daisy for instance has 34 petals, I haven't counted them personally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fibonacci number sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,... .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another Fibonacci number is the number five, count the stamens on these tiny flowers, (the camera lens was millimeters away from the flower) there are five on each one. This delicate little flower brings to my mind a ballerina dancing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every one of these tiny flowers has five petals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drawing of a Fibonacci spiral. The rectangle within which the spiral fits is called the "golden mean".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Parthenon in Athens Greece is the most famous man-made examples of the "golden mean".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who or what was Fibonacci? Leonardo Fibonacci (1170 - 1240), was a mathematician, the most renowned mathematician of his day, who lived in Pisa Italy. </span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-64897754233670044742014-09-28T16:13:00.001+02:002014-09-28T16:13:25.255+02:00First rain of summer.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday afternoon it started to rain softly, it rain softly for most of the night it has been raining all of today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I looked out my front door this morning I saw this rose and rosebuds sprinkled with rain drops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This opening rose looks almost like a strawberry, good enough to eat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a long dry summer, this is the first rain since May.</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-80489331710254604312014-09-14T20:02:00.000+02:002014-09-14T20:02:32.606+02:00First fish of summer.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bass fishing in South Africa usually takes in the summer, that is all the month's that have and "r" in them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Took a #6 fly rod down to one of the farm ponds and tried my luck, well first cast and I caught a nice small-mouthed bass. These bass are real fighters and give you a good run for your money.</span><br />
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Same fish, photo by Enrico Bucceri, a.k.a., the Italian Leprechaun. The following photos were all taken by Enrico.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I look a bit startled here, but this photo gives a nice idea of the size of the fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tombi watching me cast. I think I have mentioned it before, Tombi means young girl in Zulu. Not so young any more +/- 14 years old now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second bass, small but gave a good account of itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Third fish, slightly bigger than the second. I caught four fish and missed several, think the hook was a bit blunt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My fly was a large "woolly bugger".</span>Philliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759608831522681285noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700493800797206145.post-71479888757177074092014-09-13T10:06:00.001+02:002014-09-13T10:06:48.218+02:00Grandfather & grandson.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My landlord, Owen and wife Sue are looking after their grandson Ben, the son of their daughter who lives in Durban. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Owen Moore and his grandson Ben on granddad's modern steed. The first words that Ben learn't to say are <i>ganda-ganda,</i> Zulu for tractor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A real son of the soil, and a humble man with a deep Christian faith. Owen is supposedly retired and his son is farming now, but Owen is up at sunrise and still going at sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Owens great-grandfather was Sir Frederick Robert Moor, 1853 - 1927, the last Prime Minister on the Natal colony, from 1906 - 1910. In 1910 Natal colony, Cape colony and the two ex Boer republics of the Orange Freestate and the Traansvaal, (Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek), amalgamated to form the then Union of South Africa, which became the Republic of South Africa in 1961.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sir Frederick Owen Moor was a member of the Natal legislature from 1886 - 1910, Prime minister from 1906 - 1910. A minister in the first Union cabinet under General Louis Botha and the senator in the Union senate from 1910 until his death in 1927, he was also a member of King Edward VII's privy council.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Strange how people who really have "it" never flaunt it, I had to search for the above information on the internet. Owen's son Dave seems to have inherited his great-great grandfathers drive, apart from owning two farms he manages several businesses at the same time, not interested in politics though.</span><br />
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